GOP Congressman Says DC Statehood Would Make It Harder for His Staff to Park
Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty When Congress held a hearing Thursday on the possibility of statehood for Washington, DC, Republicans came prepared with all the usual arguments for why district residents shouldn’t be represented in the US House and Senate. DC statehood might violate the Constitution, they claimed. DC wouldn’t be able to support itself financially, they worried.…
Exclusive: The Climate Crisis Will Hit Hard in Mayor Pete’s Lifetime. Here’s His Plan to Fight It.
Michael Brochstein/Zuma Pete Buttigieg wants Americans to understand that the climate crisis isn’t only about encroaching seas and shrinking glaciers—it affects everything and everyone in between. “Too often, I think our imagination around climate change is confined to the North and the South Pole, but I see it happening right in the middle of America.”“Too…
Trump Blasts People “Dumb Enough to Believe” He’d Act Inappropriately With a Foreign Leader
John Gibbins/ZUMA What did President Donald Trump promise a foreign leader? That’s the question rattling Washington this morning after an explosive report late Wednesday in the Washington Post detailed a whistleblower’s claim that the president made an alarming offer to a yet-unknown foreign leader that prompted a US intelligence official to file a formal complaint with the…
Here’s How Vaping Affects Cigarette Use
Rich Lowry says the recent campaign against vaping is ridiculous. After all, vaping is a lot better for you than smoking cigarettes: About 11 million adults vape, and some percentage of them are former smokers or would be smoking in the absence of e-cigarettes. A robust study in the United Kingdom found that vaping is…
Trump Wants to Log an Enormous Alaska Forest. These Native Women Traveled 3,000 Miles to Stop It.
The WECAN Indigenous Women’s Tongass Delegation on Capitol Hill, Washington DC.Melissa Lyttle “If we had dressed in office clothing to meet the standards of DC,” says Wanda Culp, who wore vibrant red, blue, and black robes, “we would have just melted into the crowds that were going into those offices every 15 to 30 minutes.”…
Whistleblower: Trump Is a National Security Threat
Somebody please make it stop: The whistleblower complaint that has triggered a tense showdown between the U.S. intelligence community and Congress involves President Trump’s communications with a foreign leader, according to two former U.S. officials familiar with the matter. Trump’s interaction with the foreign leader included a “promise” that was regarded as so troubling that…